| ISBN |
0804732795 |
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9780804732796 |
| Description |
ix, 239 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Virtuosity and Journalism -- The Musical Alibi in Theories of Performativity -- Instruments of Virtuosity -- Virtuosity, Rhapsody, and Romantic Philology -- Liszt's Bad Style -- Poetic Originality and Musical Debt: Paradoxes of Translation -- Rivalry Among the Arts and Professional Limitations -- Music, Painting, and Writing in Baudelaire's Petits poems en prose. |
| Summary |
A study of the reflexive relationship between music and language in the nineteenth century, this book maintains a discrete historical focus while drawing upon an aesthetic going back to problems of epic delivery in ancient Greece. Reading Romantic reactions to music together with linguistic and economic conflicts brought about by the rise of journalism, the book pursues the tension around performativity that both connects and separates music and writing. |
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Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856.
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Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886.
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Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 -- Knowledge -- Music.
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Music and literature -- History -- 19th century.
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Music and language -- History -- 19th century.
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Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics
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